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This is a little bit heavier a lift than agencies and bureaus -- the number of programs exceeds the number of bureaus by something
like an order of magnitude (much as the number of bureaus exceeds the number of agencies). And it might be that some programs
have more than one agency/bureau parent. But today's powerful computers can keep track of these things -- they can count pretty
high! And the government should figure out all the programs it has, keep
that list up to date, and publish it for public consumption.
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Like information about their parental units, the agencies and bureaus, data that identifies and distinguishes programs is
not comprehensively published. There is some information about programs available in usable forms. The Catalog of Federal
Domestic Assistance website (www.cfda.gov) has useful aggregation of some information on programs, but the canonical guide
to government programs, along with the bureaus and agencies that run them does not exist.
... the program category gets an "incomplete" and the threat of a future F. (Or maybe a D thanks to the CFDA.)
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